The Portico, Band 3Neale Wills & Cole, 1817 |
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... language , what 102 Jameson's Medical Admonisher , 249 Descent of Peter die Great , 114 Journey through Albania 156 Description of the Athenian la- Last poems of Byron , 5641 d.es 259 Latitude of West Point 246 Desultory reading , 241 ...
... language , what 102 Jameson's Medical Admonisher , 249 Descent of Peter die Great , 114 Journey through Albania 156 Description of the Athenian la- Last poems of Byron , 5641 d.es 259 Latitude of West Point 246 Desultory reading , 241 ...
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... language attributed to him , on this occa- sion , is quite too lofty for one so young . The discovery of the camera was , indeed , a most decided proof of the activity of his mind . But the most unequivocal triumph of early genius ...
... language attributed to him , on this occa- sion , is quite too lofty for one so young . The discovery of the camera was , indeed , a most decided proof of the activity of his mind . But the most unequivocal triumph of early genius ...
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... language more plain and clear ; or , that the perspicuity of an inference , depended upon the extent , to which it could be stretched , by the multiplication , and ramifica- tion , of the proposition . Among the notes to this Essay ...
... language more plain and clear ; or , that the perspicuity of an inference , depended upon the extent , to which it could be stretched , by the multiplication , and ramifica- tion , of the proposition . Among the notes to this Essay ...
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... language , and to pour them in " full tide " upon the head of this " victim for the tomahawk of vituperative satire , " until we came nearly to the close , when the whole mystery was explained by an " extract of a letter , " which Mr ...
... language , and to pour them in " full tide " upon the head of this " victim for the tomahawk of vituperative satire , " until we came nearly to the close , when the whole mystery was explained by an " extract of a letter , " which Mr ...
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... language comes with peculiar propriety , from a writer who seems to have ransacked the Dic- tionaries of every language , for the purpose of collecting all their bombast : which he pours upon the reader in one continued tor- rent of ...
... language comes with peculiar propriety , from a writer who seems to have ransacked the Dic- tionaries of every language , for the purpose of collecting all their bombast : which he pours upon the reader in one continued tor- rent of ...
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Seite 481 - And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Seite 390 - For this we may thank Pope ; but unless we could imitate him in the closeness and compactness of his expression, as well as in the smoothness of his numbers, we had better drop the imitation, which serves no other purpose than to emasculate and weaken all we write. Give me a manly rough line, with a deal of meaning in it, rather than a whole poem full of musical periods, that have nothing but their oily smoothness to recommend them...
Seite 104 - Of the laborious and mercantile part of the people, the diction is in a great measure casual and mutable; many of their terms are formed for some temporary or local convenience and though current at certain times and places are in others utterly unknown. This fugitive cant, which is always in a state of increase or decay, cannot be regarded as any part of the durable materials of a language and therefore must be suffered to perish with other things unworthy of preservation.
Seite 276 - Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
Seite 180 - Tis the last remnant of the wreck of years, And looks as with the wild.bewilder'd gaze Of one to stone converted by amaze, Yet still with consciousness ; and there it stands Making a marvel that it not decays, When the coeval pride of human hands, Levell'd Aventicum, hath strew'd her subject lands.
Seite 17 - Idalia's velvet-green has something of cant. An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature ennobles Art ; an epithet or metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature.
Seite 477 - Relentless walls ! whose darksome round contains Repentant sighs, and voluntary pains : Ye rugged rocks, which holy knees have worn ; Ye grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid thorn ! Shrines ! where their vigils pale-ey'd virgins keep, And pitying saints, whose statues learn to weep ! Though cold like you, unmov'd and silent grown, I have not yet forgot myself to stone.
Seite 182 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Seite 232 - O ! would the Sons of Men once think their Eyes And Reason giv'n them but to study Flies! See Nature in some partial narrow shape, And let the Author of the Whole escape : Learn but to trifle; or, who most observe, To wonder at their Maker, not to serve!
Seite 175 - Yet must I think less wildly : I have thought Too long and darkly, till my brain became, In its own eddy boiling and o'erwrought, A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame : And thus, untaught in youth my heart to tame, My springs of life were poison'd.